Comic Life provides the easy-to-use tools; you provide the creativity. For many of us, life seems to imitate art, so wouldn't it be cool to meld the two? With Comic Life Deluxe Edition, you can transform your personal photos into colorful comics - and it's fun, easy, and extremely addicting.

Some puzzles are as complicated as they look - and even those that don't look complicated usually are. In the beginning, a weird book fell through a rip in the sky and transported us to a mysterious island filled with abstract puzzle after abstract puzzle - that's how millions of gamers fell in love with (and plenty of others learned to loathe) the puzzle-laden world of Myst over a dozen years ago. For fans of the series, Myst V: End of Ages ends the saga triumphantly, but if you've ever tried and hated a Myst game before, you'll find nothing here to make you want to open this book again.

The vast variety of surround-sound options will keep your music spinning in every direction imaginable. Samplers are the bread and butter of life for digital musicians of any stripe, and Kontakt 2 is quite possibly the most awesome and complete software sampler we've ever seen.